Sentences with phrase «sorry tale»

If you have the stomach for it, you can read a summary of the whole sorry tale below.

• Japan's Brothers in Woe As one sorry tale of Japanese corporate governance nears the bottom, another just falls more steeply into the arc of pain.

How find comfort in so sorry a tale?

Sorry tales abound of leaky buildings, plagues of beetles, poorly prepared specimens and unsuitable display cases.

Get the full and sorry tale over at my DeSmogBlog post, but the short story is that a library service of the academy took two of Heartland's climate publications produced by its Non-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) project and translated them into one tome.

Let me preface my sad, sorry tale of attachment parenting gone horribly awry by saying this: I do not think attachment parenting in and of itself is a bad thing.

The stakes may be lower, but the principle is the same in the sorry tale of Target Canada and its retail arch-rival, Walmart.

It is altogether a sorry tale, riddled with the «complicities» of the Christian missionary effort that is guilty of «forcing conversion to European forms of Christianity,» of «the desecration of religious sites, and other crimes against the spirituality of indigenous peoples.»

Shepard's sorry tale is briskly told and vividly written.

I think people realize that their «good» book isn't actually that good at all, and so instead of giving up their beliefs on this sorry tale they have to patch it with nonsense interpretations.

Roiphe then adds, «A sorry tale, but not so strange.»

Each transfer window brings so many «ifs» and lots of «maybes», and then years after, it becomes «nearly signed...» The sorry tales of the Arsenal FC.

Caught up in the middle of this sorry tale are four Arsenal players, Sagna, Clichy, Diaby and the out of contract Gallas.

The firing of Jorge Costa by Gabon just 70 days before they host the African Nations Cup continues a sorry tale of panicked and knee - jerk decision making by African football federations.

He said: «The report is a sorry tale of money being wasted and a failure to prioritise the needs of service personnel.

Fifty years after Nzeogwu, Nigeria's contemporary narrative canvass quakes with no less dramatic fable of 1st Republic sainthood; and a political stream of consciousness that would rather not tell the sorry tale as it was, but as the present colourful narrators would rather wish!

So there you have it... the sad and sorry tale of Henley Boy.

This is his sorry tale

You'll hear a sorry tale because the market still isn't close to recovering.

But this crazy - looking feline captured the heart of the nation - with cat lovers from as far as USA and Egypt desperate to re-home her after her sorry tale of homelessness went global.

Other museums could stand to learn something, with their architectural follies, empty atriums, and private collections as glorified tax shelters — not to mention MoMA's real estate empire and the sorry tale of LA MOCA under Jeffrey Deitch, the celebrity dealer.

The latest is a sorry tale of an operation involving eight officers and a helicopter to recover a games console — allegedly worth less than a dollar in scrap — that was salvaged from a recycling center.

IMO what this sorry tale (pale?)

Far from «coding» being the great advance for our economy, it is often, as in this sorry tale, a great drag on it, because this is how many large system implementations fail.

But qualification in the sense of a qualified solicitor or barrister does not guarantee competent representation, one only has to look at the sorry tales that emerge from the disciplinary tribunals and appeal courts to see that.

These thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports detail a great many combat actions that have been hitherto unreported, telling a sorry tale of civilian deaths, armed conflict among allies, and mounting chaos in Afghanistan.

In a recent email, a manager told this sorry tale.

One day... Anyways, it's too complicated to even try and combine half of my sorry tale with my Oscar selfies round up.

O do I have a sorry tale to tell that was very similar to yours, but ended in misery!!

Anyways, it's too complicated to even try and combine half of my sorry tale with my Oscar selfies round up.